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Tuesday, 11/23/04

You've no doubt heard about the five-digit eBay auction of the ten-year-old grilled cheese sandwich, slightly chewed, bearing the face of the Virgin Mary. Sensible explanations are appearing all over, but the only sensible commentary I've seen came from William Gibson:

You call it pareidolia, I call it apophenia, but why can't people see that it looks exactly like the young Marlene Dietrich?

Just try and argue with the man:

Comparison photo of grilled cheese and marlene dietrich

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